Under the coordination of the Pan American Health Organization, representatives from 17 Caribbean countries and territories, CARICOM, CARPHA, UN agencies, collaborating agencies from Canada and United States, the Inter-American Development Bank, the University of the West Indies, and civil society met in Barbados on 8-9 June 2015 at the Forum of Key Stakeholders on NCDs:
Advancing the NCD Agenda in the Caribbean. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and agree on joint strategies in order to regain the technical and political momentum regarding NCDs and their risk factors that was sparked by the Political Declaration of Port of Spain (POS) in 2007